The Sexcapades of the World’s Most Corrupt Leaders
World leaders: What motivates them to reach the very top of their country’s political pyramid? What drives them to seek out the toughest, most publicly visible, most thankless kinds of careers, pushing their people reluctantly towards the future and relying on only themselves and their insight to properly steer the ship of state?
For many, it’s likely a sense of duty and responsibility towards their beloved homeland, or a desire to give back to the community that has given them so much. But let’s be honest… not everyone in a position of real political power around the globe seems to feel this way. In fact, a number of world leaders have been implicated in a shocking level of corruption during their time in office. Which makes sense if you think about it… Power is a corrupting influence, of course, and the office of president or prime minister or dictator-for-life is obviously going to appeal to someone with a lust for power to begin with, so it’s a recipe for trouble.
What is also not surprising – if intriguing – is how many of these corrupt world leaders share a predilection for perverse or at least non-conventional sex. Putting fun new terms into our vocabularies like bunga-bunga parties, these “sexcapades” have many times brought otherwise massively-powerful individuals to their knees. (No pun intended.)
The accusations included on this list are harsh, with everything from simple extramarital affairs to two-week benders with dozens of models (aka prostitutes) to flat-out rape accusations.
Many of the figures mentioned were later exonerated (like French economist and head of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of raping a New York City hotel housekeeper), and some went on to have completely healthy and normal political and personal careers.
In the words of Winston Churchill, the power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. As these world leaders who dealt with sex scandals will likely tell you, keeping it in their pants (or out of the press) can be the most difficult thing to control of all.
The Leader:
Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy and head of Mediaset, the largest Italian broadcasting company
The Sexcapades:
Visits with underage prostitutes, recruiting escorts from around Europe, harassing policewomen, bunga-bunga parties
The Dirty Details:
Over the course of his long business and political career, Berlusconi has been accused of numerous criminal acts. Perhaps too numerous to even name? These include colluding with the Mafia, false accounting practices, tax fraud, bribing police officers and judges, drug trafficking and embezzlement. Geez, collude with ONE MAFIA and suddenly you’re some kind of villain.
In addition to political corruption and unethical business practices, Berlusconi has had a long, sordid history of sex scandals and accusations of impropriety.
Which leads us to a case against Berlusconi that’s still ongoing, concerning a Moroccan nightclub dancer named Karima El Mahroug (also known as Karima Keyek or by her, um, professional name Ruby Rubcuori – in English, Ruby Heartstealer.)
Allegedly, Berlusconi paid Ruby for sexual services in early 2010, when she was a minor. He’s also accused of abusing the power of his office to secure Ruby’s release after she was arrested in May 2010 by Milan police. (She’d been charged with stealing three thousand euros.) Apparently, Berlusconi phoned the Milan police from Paris and told them some story about Ruby being related to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and arguing that they needed to release her to avoid an international crisis. (Guess that sounds better than “Please let me secret hooker girlfriend out, you guys.”)
It was Ruby who first shared details with the world about Silvio’s “bunga-bunga” parties. These involved lavish catered affairs that would culminate in group sex between male and female invited guests. (At one such party, Silvio gave his beloved an envelope containing 7,000 euros, but not for sex! Just cause he’s such a nice guy.)
The lovely Miss Karima, looking completely innocent
The term “bunga-bunga” is not one that exists outside of Berlusconi’s fevered mind, but the accepted definition has since become “an erotic ritual which involves a powerful leader and several naked women.”
Then there’s all the testimony from Berlusconi’s alleged pimp, Gianpaolo Tarantini, who claims he paid for women to travel from across Italy as well as the United Kingdom to stay in luxury hotels and entertain the prime minister. (The girls were allegedly paid 1,000 euros per encounter, plus gifts and parties thrown in their honor.) Berlusconi is said to have once visited with 8 of these women in a single evening. (One of them, Carolina Marconi, was a contestent on the Italian version of “Big Brother.”)
In connection with the Ruby affair, Berlusconi was indicated in February of 2011 and his trial began in May. In September, the Italian Senate voted to move the trial to a special Ministers’ Court, where they felt the decision would be more fair. Berlusconi has attempted to delay the trial, and a final decision is expected by the beginning of 2012. This is on top of separate ongoing cases against Berlusconi for the aforementioned fraud, bribery and revealing of court secrets. Not a bad rap sheet for a 75 year old man!
Oh, one more thing… Here’s a video of the prime minster making lewd and inappropriate gestures towards a police woman:
Being the charmer that he is he also described German Chancellor Angela Merkel “Unf***able” because that’s what
NUMBER TWO Idi Amin
The Leader:
Idi Amin Dada, military leader and President of Uganda
The Sexcapades:
Polygamy, keeping concubines, sexual addiction, all sorts of other creepy crap
The Dirty Details:
Amin’s 8-year rule over Uganda was a horrifying period of political repression, state-sanctioned murder, genocide, corruption, economic mismanagement and other sundry human rights abuses. It’s almost difficult to imagine any ruler treating their own citizenry with more blatant, callous, inhuman disregard. The total number of people killed as a result of his rule in Uganda has been estimated as somewhere between 100,000 to 500,000 people. (The figures aren’t more precise because the killing was so indiscriminate.)
But as has become a running theme on this list, Amin was as perverse as he was blood-thirsty. Because he was so prone to flights of fancy (at one point giving himself the title “His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”), it’s impossible to know what stories about his bizarre personal appetites are true and what stories are just part of the gruesome legend.
It is known that Amin married no less than 6 times, kept over 50 mistresses outside of his marriages and fathered between 35 and 45 children. In one incident, he started businesses in his the names of 3 of his wives, and then divorced them publicly on state-run radio, arguing that a woman running a business is a violation of Islamic Law. (One of the wives spoke out in protest and was found shortly thereafter with her arms and legs cut off.) Many of these women ended up with neurosyphilis, indicating that Amin himself had probably picked it up from somewhere and had spread it to them.
Even when out of Uganda and in the presence of other world leaders, Amin lacked a real sense of tact or decorum. (Not surprising for a mass murderer, I suppose.) During a state visit to England for the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, it’s said that he asked for an old pair of the Queen’s underwear to hang on to as a memento. (They were all out of miniature Big Bens!)
Still haven’t had enough? Where to even go next? Amin’s bragging about having tasted human flesh? The crazy parties where he used to force people to fight to the death for his amusement? The weird fact that he used to eat as many as 40 oranges a day (and sometimes subsisted entirely on the fruit) because he thought it would give him super-sexual-powers? Perhaps oranges should be add to this?
You could fill a series of lengthy books with this guy’s crazy.
NUMBER THREE Muammar al-Gaddafi
The Leader:
Muammar Gaddafi, former Libyan dictator
The Sexcapades:
Keeping a harem of virgin bodyguards, taking lavish vacations with Italian “models,” paying off political opponents with prostitutes
The Dirty Details:
Gaddafi was an almost universally-despised international villain who ruled his home nation as an autocrat for over 40 years. (He’s among the longest-ruling non-royal national leaders in history.) The guy has a rap sheet a mile long, even before the infamous 2011 Libyan Civil War that led to his overthrow and eventual murder. Just to give you the short short version:
– Trying to buy nukes from China, India and Pakistan
– Secretly working on chemical weapons programs
– Alleged ties to the terrorists who bombed Pan Am Flight 103 (known as the “Lockerbie Bombing”), which killed a total of 270 people
– Forging alliances to some of the other biggest international s**ts, including kill-crazy Ugandan dictator Idi Amin
– General support for terrorist and anti-Western organizations around the world throughout the ’70s and ’80s
– Terrible, terrible, ridiculous lack of fashion sense
So that’s the big picture case. Gaddafi… Bad guy… But would you be surprised to find out he was also super-pervy? Probably not, considering the title of this list.
Unlike the secret infatuation with Condoleezza Rice that was only revealed after his death, while Gaddafi was alive, his choice of a harem of female bodyguards was highly publicized. Gaddafi would personally select virgins to serve as his personal bodyguards and travel with him wherever he went.
Yeah, they so look happy to be there
By his own description, he was “empowering” these ladies by making them to wear high heels, jewelry and inches of makeup, even forcing them to agree to chastity (with some personal exceptions made for him, naturally.) Also, making sure they’d give their lives to protect him. Very empowering.
Of course, forcing women to have sex is much easier when the ladies are not highly trained killing machines, which is why Gaddafi took a page out of the play book of Prime Minister of Italy and fellow creeper Silvio Berlusconi and just paid for models to fly in and sleep with him.
Though the ladies denied anything sexual happened (wink wink), in 2010, Gaddafi invited 20 young Italian models on a two-week all-expenses paid trip to Libya. A junket, if you will. The models (and by models, I mean prostitutes) later said that Gaddafi treated them like queens, but all denied the existence of the actual sex parties. (Or “bunga bunga” parties, in the parlance of our times.)
Gaddafi would even use these ladies as a negotiation tactic at times. In 2009, he was having trouble becoming the leader of the African Union. So he allegedly called in a favor from his pal Berlusconi, and arranged for two escorts to pay a visit to his chief opponent, who had argued against his assumption to the role. (Though Gaddafi’s former aide Nuri Al Mismari told a French newspaper about the deal, he declined to name the African leader who accepted Gaddafi and Berlusconi’s, um, payoff.) In a surprise move, Gaddafi did end up winning the role.
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NUMBER FOUR Kim Jong-il
The Leader:
Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of North Korea. (Other real not-made-up-by-me titles include: Superior Person, Dear Leader, Dear Leader who is a perfect incarnation of the appearance that a leader should have, Guiding Sun Ray, Ever-Victorious Iron-Willed Commander, Peerless Leader, Great Sun of the 21st Century, Great Man Who Descended from Heaven and Highest Incarnation of the Revolutionary Comradely Love)
The Sexcapades:
Maintaining a massive entourage of hand-picked female companions
The Dirty Details:
In the aftermath of his death of a suspected heart attack on December 17, 2011, much was made of Kim Jong-il’s vile legacy in his native North Korea. Under the merciless totalitarian regime of first his father, Kim Il-sung, and later Kim himself, North Korea had become a grim Orwellian nightmare. Kim’s people are the most controlled and monitored on the planet: Televisions only receive government-approved stations, and listening to government propaganda is mandatory in all homes. The Internet is banned. Only elites are allowed to have cell phones. There is no free press. Most of the country does not have access to electricity. Millions starve while the aristocracy eats lobster. Citizens are regularly arrested and jailed, sometimes permanently, for minor or even unidentifiable crimes. And of course… no one is allowed to leave. It’s basically like someone let a Bond villain run a country for several decades.
But surprise, surprise, despite running his country like it’s a prison (and not even a nice, clean, newly-built prison), Kim himself enjoyed the good life. This included gourmet food shipped in from around the world, a library of over 20,000 film titles and, yes, a MASSIVE retinue of hand-selected beautiful women whose job it was to provide Kim with entertainment and sexual gratification. (Just how massive? Some have put the number at… ready for this? 2,000 women! All there to serve one guy! And he was getting old!)
According to defectors, this escort corps (see what I did there?) is known as the “Gippeumjo,” which roughly translates to “Pleasure Brigade,” “Entourage of Delight” or “Joy Division.” (Talk about love tearing us apart.) The team was divided up into 3 groups:
– The Happiness Team provides massages
– The Satisfaction Team provides… ugh… sexual release. (I totally understand if you just stopped reading this list.)
– The ‘Gamujo’ Team sings and dances
The women were carefully selected based on appearance, height (Kim was only 5’2″, and didn’t want women who would tower over him), family background, even grades. When Kim was bored, he’d summon them (most often to his “Number 8 Banquet Hall” in Pyongyang) and make them perform nude dances for his entertainment. He’d even invite friends to come and watch the show, provided they promised not to touch the merchandise. 
Kim and his cabinet, or the cast of “Entourage”? You tell me…
One former cabinet member recalled being told he must dance with the ladies, but would be considered a thief if he tried to touch them. Does this guy know how to party or what?
NUMBER FIVE Uday Hussein
The Leader:
Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein and, for a time, heir apparent to the Iraqi Presidency
The Sexcapades:
Nightly sex parties with a revolving harem of women, an unending string of rapes and murders, torturing women who slept with his brother
The Dirty Details:
It’s rare that a man will behave in a way that’s so despicable, so abhorrent, so perverse that they make a film about him in which he is explicitly compared to SATAN. Yet here we are.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had 2 brutal sons who were just as crazy as he was – Uday and Qusay. Out of the entire terrible trio, Uday is thought to be the worst, an unforgiving psychopath who delighted only in sadism and cruelty. Until the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, little was known about the day-to-day lives of Uday and Qusay Hussein. But once Iraqis began to talk to the media, a seemingly never-ending string of unimaginably grim, grotesque stories began to emerge.
Most infamous is the account (recreated in the film “The Devil’s Double,” about Uday and one of his personal decoys) concerns a 14-year-old girl – the daughter of a former provincial governor – with whom Uday became infatuated after spotting her at a party. Uday’s bodyguards at first tried to simply lure her up to meet with the boss man, but she refused. When she reappeared 3 days later, she had been raped, but also provided with a new dress, a new watch and some money. Her father complained to Saddam, and then went public with the story, leading Uday to threaten to kill the governor unless he submitted both of his daughters (the other one was 12 at the time) to be his new ‘girlfriends.’ The governor complied.
But that’s just one story. There are other anecdotes, many of them almost too hideous to recount. One story tells of Uday crashing a wedding and kidnapping and raping the bride, leading the groom to kill himself. Another bride was raped and burned with chemicals while still in her wedding dress. Uday reportedly was so jealous of his brother Qusay (thought to be Saddam’s favored son), he insisted that any women who slept with his brother had to be kidnapped and brought to him for rape and torture. Sometimes he would utilize bizarre or historical methods of torture that he found out about on the Internet. Use of an iron maiden was said to be among his favorites.
Uday’s less violent but still peculiar proclivities over the long years of his father’s absolute rule also captured the world’s attention in 2003. Five nights a week, he’d throw private parties at the posh Baghdad Boat Club, with a rotating crop of beautiful young women invited for drinking and dancing. Near the close of the party, the female guests would be lined up and Uday would choose his favorites to keep for the night. He apparently never slept with the same girl more than 2 or 3 times. (The parties were only five nights a week, as Uday took two nights a week off from girls. “Fasting,” as he called it.)
An ill man who had been grievously injured in an attempt on his life in 1996, Uday tried all sorts of unconventional remedies to cure himself, including bringing in a new mother to breastfeed him. (He hoped that the vitamin-rich milk might help to cure him. Plus I think he probably just enjoyed it too.)
NUMBER SIX Mao Zedong
The Leader:
1st Chairman of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong
The Sexcapades:
Sleeping with a ton of young peasant girls, spreading venereal diseases, fondling and molesting male guards
The Dirty Details:
Mao’s rule over China from 1949 to 1976 led to an estimated 50 million deaths, from causes ranging to mass starvation, suicides as a direct result of government policies and straight-up political repression. He’s remembered as a deeply eccentric man in his personal life: For example, Mao rejected most standard hygienic practices, and refused to brush his teeth or bathe regularly. But he was also a very peculiar individual in the bedroom, particularly as he grew older.
Like many of the other dictators on this list, Mao preferred to invite selected girls to private parties, only in his case, the focus was on ballroom dancing. (The practice of ballroom dancing was, of course, frowned upon at the time in China as decadent and bourgeois. But hey, it’s Good to be the Chairman!)
Mao would take turns dancing foxtrots and waltzes with each of the invited women, before selecting his favorite and taking them into a side room for sex. The women were chosen based not just on their appearance but also level of enthusiasm for the Communist Party. Sometimes, he would reject whole groups of women because he suspected they might be supporters of a political rival.
In 1994, Mao’s private physician Li Zhisui released a book called “The Private Life of Chairman Mao,” giving the world even more insight into The Great Helmsman’s idiosyncratic tastes.
As he aged, Mao’s sexual appetites increased, and he started inviting 3 or more young women into his bed at once. (He purportedly believed in an old Taoist teaching that men need to be revitalized periodically by vaginal secretions – called “waters of yin” – to remain potent.) Sources close to Mao also reported that, when faced with political hardship, he would sometimes suffer from impotence, which he’d cure with injections of ground deer antlers, believed by the Chinese to serve as an aphrodisiac. (Cause we all know how much action deer are getting? I guess?)
And, yes, according to Dr. Li, Mao did not necessarily limit himself to solely women, but was also known to fondle or caress male guards around him, sometimes when he was already undressed. Li insists this doesn’t mean Mao was gay or bisexual. Merely that he was just so sex-crazed, sometimes he’d just reach for the genitalia nearest to him. Charming
NUMBER SEVEN . Moshe Katsav
The Leader:
Moshe Katsav, President of Isreal
The Sexcapades:
Rape, sexual harassment, breach of trust, obstruction of justice, harassment of a witness and fraud
The Dirty Details:
The Israeli presidency is not a particularly powerful position, but more a ceremonial role. (All the real power lies with the Prime Minister.) Nevertheless, it does provide a pretty solid platform if you are a power-hungry individual with a taste for sexual harassment and/or assault.
In 2006, Katsav was into the 6th year of a largely unremarkable presidency. He went to Israel’s Attorney General at the time, Menahem Mazuz, and claimed that a female employee was blackmailing him with false allegations of rape and sexual harassment. (The accuser was not identified, and became known only as “A.”) Whatever plan Katsav had at the time clearly backfired, as Mazuz opened an official investigation, sparking more women to come forward with their own sexual harassment claims against him.
Unfortunately for Katsav, it turns out not only did the investigation reveal that Katsav DID have inappropriate relations with “A,” but eventually located 10 other women who also said they were sexually harassed while under his employ.
This must be his “I’m the victim here” face. Though he couldn’t be prosecuted while in office, Mazuz made it very clear that the moment he was out of power Katsav would be
facing charges of rape, sexual harassment, breach of trust, obstruction of justice, harassment of a witness and fraud. (Hey, he was busy!) Initially, Katsav cried to the media in a press conference about how he was unjustly crucified by the media, but he later resigned as president with the intention of taking a plea bargain on the charges. Anything, really, to keep him out of jail.
It looked like it might actually happen, as Mazuz offered Katsav a plea bargain with minimized charges. But once the public got wind of the deal… it didn’t go over so well.
The public pressure was enough to convince the courts to indict Katsav on charges of rape, sexual harassment, committing an indecent act while using force, harassing a witness and obstruction of justice. He was convicted of the charges and went on to lose an appeal. In addition to being ordered to pay the women he allegedly raped, Katsav was sentenced to serve seven years in prison for the crimes. Throughout the entire ordeal, Katsav continued to maintain his innocence of all charges. On the day he entered jail, he told the media “You’re burying a man alive.!”
NUMBER EIGHT Václav Klaus
The Leader:
Václav Klaus, President and former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
The Sexcapades:
Extramarital affairs with flight attendants
The Dirty Details:
For the most part, Vaclav Klaus was a good president. He wasn’t corrupt so much that he was well, quirky. The news media made a big stink about him in April 2011 when he was visiting Chile and he stole a pen. Yes, a writing instrument. It was caught on tape and shown around the world. Shocking ain’t it?
More recently, he also raised red flags when he was in Australia to do an interview. He objected to going through security at the Australian Parliament House and left. Really, compared to other corrupt world leaders, this guy is a saint.
But the President had a deep dark secret that he was keeping from his adoring Czech residents. Klaus loves him some flight attendants and has for roughly 20 years. We’re not talking the rude old lady flight attendants that won’t give you the whole can of soda, we’re talking tall, mid-20s, blonde and gorgeous. For the record, he also has a wife, a few kids and a handful of grandchildren.
Klaus’ affairs go back to 1991 when he began a relationship with stunner Eva Svobodova. At the time, Klaus was 50 and she was just 29, but in true Hugh Hefner fashion, as he grew older, his ladies grew younger and blonder.
In 2002, Kalus moved on to 24-year-old Klara Lohniska, who was not just a flight attendant on his official jet but also a college student studying economics.
This love of the ladies of the friendly skies was not made public until 2008 when he was beginning his second term as president. The morning after he won re-election, Klaus was photographed leaving a hotel in Prague with young blonde stewardess Petra Bednarova.
He ended up fessing up to the affair after the photos went public stating that it would be “difficult to explain to his wife, Livia.” Spoiler: Livia already knew and like all good women, sat back and allowed her man to enjoy himself.
See in the Czech Republic, affairs of these kinds are not exactly seen as outrageous or horribly wrong, more of a measure of how manly a man is. Many newspapers criticized him for the infidelity while others praised him for displaying his manliness, a sure sign of a great leader. The kicker however came from a completely different take that one tabloid had on the whole situation.
According to the gay magazine LUI, Klaus didn’t really like all these beautiful young ladies, rather was only having these affairs, or staging these affairs, to cover up the fact that he was a closet homosexual. Ah, the plot thickens.
~~Defender of Faith~Guardian of Truth~~ 